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Depression |
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AncientHippie Member
since 2009-10-15
Posts 411Surfing the Cosmic Flow |
Wave after dark wave descends, crashes down upon me with the suffocating weight of myriad sorrows, far, far too much to bear. Thoughts swarm like bees to cover me with the pervasive buzz of worries, of pains, of soul-wrenching sadness: I cannot breathe. I struggle, frantically seeking light, the comfort of past glories, the glow of happy memories:- but the solid black blanket stifles even faintest spark. I am exhausted, and withdraw further into my besieged core, where there remains nothing of the person I once was: I am gone. From the series "Anger in the Street" "We are stardust: we are golden: and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." --Joni Mitchell "Woodstock" |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Oh, so sad and yet your words reflect a reality that we all wish would not exist at all ... Under certain circumstances it is difficult to recall the good times. Too many are in the grip of this "darkness". And still, when they are given the opportunity to talk, their eyes shine ... for just a while. Changes sometimes are so radical! You always move me, dear Poet. Love, Margherita |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
Low, stinging anguish of despair in the depths of darkness stare to seek the solace of that touch which used to be and loved so much. The end of day in seeping sorrow, twilight tears before the morrow know the night in curtain drawn is always darkest before dawn. Yet rooms molten in the heart burn and glow, glass to art, Words saddened now, winter white, shall smile again come morning light. ~KL  |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I've fought this enemy... you write it well! |
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Osprey Member
since 2009-04-12
Posts 249 |
Not that I know it in person, but I've lived in its shadow. You give life to the depressionally dead. Well- written poem |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Hello AH, this is quite a description, totally accurate and with "graceful"images of a depression. I have been a depressive man , and have to take care and resist to bad thoughts permanently, write can help , friends too. thanks for the impressive poem best wishes yann |
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AncientHippie Member
since 2009-10-15
Posts 411Surfing the Cosmic Flow |
Suthern, Osprey, and Yann: Depression affects one in three people here in Canada, and yet it is not spoken of as an epidemic. Each of us has either experienced it, or knows someone close who has. More needs to be done to examine, and treat, the basic causes. And by "treat" I do not mean giving mass doses of big Pharma chemicals: we get enough of that stuff in our food. Namaste, and go well Jim "We are stardust: we are golden: and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." --Joni Mitchell "Woodstock" |
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